Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-09-16
Official Paper for the Territory.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
OJYuptA Univ z. 1877
OLYMPIA. WASHINGTON ter.
OLYMPIA, PRIDA! EVENING. SEPT. 1e. 1857.
Falsifying History.

Falsifying History.
The Partisan has been turning over
the musty pages of history to find a
place upon which to base its political
faith, and it must be admitted that it
has literally gone back to " first prin-
ciples," when it endeavors to find the
leaven for Democracy in the Tory or
English party" which had its adher-
ents in the thirteen American colonies
before the adoption of the Constitu-
ton.
As political party name in those
times, DR.. Johnson defines Tory to
have been, cone who ndhn-od 60 tho
ancient Constitution of State and the
Apostolic Hierarchy of the Church of
England; and Hume, the historian,
q Wing to have been "a lover of liber-
ty without renouncing monarchy, and
q friend to the Protestant line" If
the Partisan's assumption is true
that Democracy owes its lineage
to the former, it follows as sequence
that the present Republican party has
inevitably descended from the latter.
1t is TO the events and principles which
set into operation the wheels Of a new
government, however, that We must
look for the primary causes which led
to the formation of parties, and when
we do this we find that whatever may
have been the terms employed as
party names the well-defined issue has
constantly been presented of freedom
to the individual and recognition of
the rights of the masses, on the part
of the Democratic sentiment, and an
aristocratic feeling tending to the dis
tinctions of caste and governmental
supremacy on the part of its opposers.
Thomas Jefferson was a fair represen-
tative of the former and Alexander
Hamilton of the latter. The one at
the head OF the Anti-Federal, (or as it
was then called Republican, party, be-
came President in 1901, and his Ad-
ministration of eight years laid deep
and broad the principles that have
since animated the Democratic party.
The Federalists in those days en-
braced in an eminent degree the aris-
tocratic element of the country, and
the Republicans (or Democrats) those
active spirits who cared little for inner
tied name; men who gloried in their
own individuality and valued every,
thing for what it showed itself to be,
stripped Of the garb of pretention.
Up to 1920, no political party fully
represented either side of the slavery
question. The vote on the compro-
mise by which Missouri came into the
Union was non-partisan, and was ad-
vocated by Henry Clay, who became
subsequently the leading spirit Of the
Wing party.
Where, in all this, can the Partisan
find justification for its assertion that
from the days Of seventy-six down to
1856 the Democracy was an aristo-
cratic, slave-holding, tlave-defending
party"f 1t goes too far back for its
record: to time when slavery was so
80 generally accorded as of "divine
origin" that it secured recognition and
guaranty of protection in the funda-
mental law of the land. Wherein
does aristocracy" crop out in party
that has ever opposed a Capitalization
of power that inevitably leads to des-
potic rule! Where does it appear in
an organization that has consistently
opposed . policy that builds up mo-
nopolies and adds to the rapacity of
corporate power! Where is it visible
In q course that recognizes in the lar
gest degree liberty of conscience and
freedom of the individual?
This much we feel in duty bound to
say in refutation of the conclusions
drawn by the Partisan's alleged His
torical Facts. The remainder of its
diatribe against the Democratic party
must await attention till another time.